Shankar Pratap Singh Bundela belongs to village Basari block Rajnagar, which was his former Estate under

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. He is popularly known as Munna Raja.

Political career

He joined the

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in the year 1972 and has been a member ever since. Elected from

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, Madhya Pradesh, he has been a Member of

Legislative Assembly twice. From the year 1980 to 1985 and 1993 to 1998. He went on to become the president of M.P. State Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank in 1997 and again in the year 2002. In 2003, he became the Vice-President of National Co-operative Bank Federation, New Delhi. Contested

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from Rajnagar Constituency of

with

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Social life

Since 1997, he has been continuously organising ' Bundeli Festival' (known as Bundeli Utsav) at village Basari to preserve and promote

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's Culture and Tradition.

Sources

*https://archive.today/20070703053043/http://archive.eci.gov.in/se98/background/S12/winners93-mp.htm item no.49 *http://www.rediff.com/election/2003/nov/01mp1.htm *http://news.oneindia.in/2007/03/13/mp-hc-quashes-petition-seeking-cancellation-of-cooperative-elections-1174133273.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20090218153220/http://archive.eci.gov.in/nov2003/pollupd/ac/candlwc/S12/S12INCAcnst.htm *http://archive.eci.gov.in/Nov2003/pollupd/ac/states/s12/Partycomp49.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20081109072215/http://www.aicc.org.in/home-layout.php?id=62 1950 births Living people People from Chhatarpur Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1980–1985 Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1993–1998 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Madhya Pradesh Indian National Congress politicians from Madhya Pradesh Bahujan Samaj Party politicians from Madhya Pradesh {{MadhyaPradesh-INC-politician-stub